Study the effect of antenna configuration on simple ADS-B receiver / Raja Farahidayu Raja Sulaiman

This thesis presents the study effect of antenna configuration on simple ADS-B receiver. In the recent years, the era of aviation technologies is come into a new technology to provide specialized Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. Nowadays, the air traffic is expected to increase that may be a higher in certain area of the country. Thus, the approvals by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are introducing the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), whereby it is a cooperative surveillance technique for Air Traffic Control (ATC). As to fulfilled requirement of ADS-B system, the antenna configuration is needed to be determined in terms of elements in array. In this paper presents, study the effect of antenna configuration on ADS-B for implementing these systems and the benefits that were achieved.